April 14- May 6, 2012  

Room 1:

Craig Doty
Wild Gift 

Craig Doty (b. Danville, CA 1981) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.  His solo exhibitions include Two Nudes at Important Projects in Oakland, CA, Women at Roots and Culture in Chicago, IL, and Devastator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.  His photographs have been included in group exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Berlin, Copenhagen, amongst others.  He received his MFA in photography from the Yale University School of Art in 2006 and his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. 

Craig Doty’s exhibition Wild Gift at The Front takes it’s title from X’s 1981 album of the same name.  Doty, who has long seen the album as a sonic embodiment of the city of Los Angeles, set out to make his own visual representation of the city he has made his home for the past three years.  At times the photographs have a direct way of describing Los Angeles, at other times Doty’s work operates in visual metaphor to describe both a deeply personal and more general experience of the place.  The photographs continue Doty’s formal exploration of the medium of photography, employing a color palette previously unseen in his work, one that reflects the natural landscape of the southern California region.  

Room 2:

Scott Saunders
ar/tic/u/lat/ed 

Scott Saunders opens an exhibition of recent sculpture at The Front called ar/tic/u/lat/ed. This is Saunders’ second solo show in New Orleans. He currently lives and works in Austin, TX.  About his recent efforts, Saunders writes… “The way we internalize input from our senses and create a coherent individual reality is a complex and mysterious process. Our ability to know things about the world is limited, and our concept of the world reflects this in generalizations and contradictions. My artwork is an exploration of these imperfect living models of reality and of our lives within them.”  For more information on Saunders’ work, please visit http://www.scottsaundersfineart.com 

 

Room 3:

Alex Podesta
Mostlymades: Finished Works in Progress 

Alex Podesta opens an exhibition of recent, ongoing work. Curatorial and creative support provided by John Otte.  

For more information on Podesta’s work, please visit http://www.alexpodesta.com   

Room 4:

Dick Keaveny
Piggies and Other Peoples 

Paintings by Dick Keaveny that are abstract, figurative and at times anthropomorphic, reflecting interests in satire and travesty,   

“Never eat more than you can lift.”                              
 - Miss Piggy  

http://dickkeaveny.blogspot.com/